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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

TERRITORY OF ALASKA 
ACCREDITED HIGH SCHOOLS 



An accredited high school is one which has been inspected by 
the Commiissioner of EdU'caton and found to offer the required 
curriculum with ah adequate faculty, adequate facilities for in- 
straction, and with that general intellectual and moral tone which 
are the marks of an efficiently organized and conducted school. A 
fully accredited four-year high school must meet the standards 
usually imaintained in similar institutions throughout the United 
States. 

The University of Washington has agreed to place on its ac- 
credited list all four-year Alaska high schools which have been in- 
spected by the Commissioner of Education and which are recom- 
mended by him as doing standard work. Graduates from all such 
high schools are admitted to the University of Washington and 
other universities and colleges of the United States without ex- 
amination. 

High schools offering less than four years of work and which 
meet the requirements may be accredited by the Commissioner of 
Education for one, two or three years. They shall be known as 
standard one, two, or three year high schools as distinguiSihed 
fro'm four year accredited high schools. 

STANDARDS GOVERNING THE ACCREDITING OF 
ALASKA HIGH SCHOOLS 

1. No high gichool shall be accredited which does not re- 
quire at least fifteen units for graduation, all of which shall be 
taken from the regular course of study as outlined by the Commis- 
sioner of Education. (A unit or credit is given for the completion 
of a s'uibject of five recitations or their equivalent laboratory 
periods per week, pursued throughout a school year of not less 
than thirty-six weeks.) 

2. All recitation periods, for classes of ten or more pupils, 
shall be at least forty-five minutes in length; for classes of not 
less than six or more than ten, at least forty minutes in length.. 
Recitation periods of less than forty minutes must be approved by 
the Comimissioner of Education. Two periods of laboratory work 
shall be considered of equal insitructional value with one period 
of recitation. Schools adopting the supervised study plan should 
provide for recitation periods of not less than sixty mimutes. 

3. No high school shall be accredited which does not have at 
least three teachers giving their entire time to instruction and 
administration. The superintendent or principal may have time- 
for supervising the work of teachers. 






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4. The minimum scholastic training of teachers of academic 
subjects in accredited four-year high schools shall be the comple- 
tion of a standard college course. 

5. Teachers of special subjects are required to possess such 
scholastic training as shall fit them to give instruction in the 
subjects which they present. Such subjects as music, art, manual 
training, household economics, physical education, commercial sub- 
jects, or such others as may be determined by the Commissioner 
of Education are to be considered as special subjects. 

6. No high school shall be accredited in any community' 
in which the standard of scholastic training required of teachers 
in the elementary school is not at least the completion of a four 
year higli school course and one year in an approved normal oi 
college with spocial attention to preparation for teaching. 

7. No high Echoo'l shall be accredited unitl in the opinion of 
the Commissioner of Education aanple and suitable provision has 
been made for the proper education of the children in the 
elementary schools both as regards equipiment and number and 
quality of the teaching force. 

8. The number of daily periods of classroom instruction for 
each teacher shall not exceed six; Provided that a laboratoi-y 
recitation of two periods sihall be considered as the equivalent of 
one regular period of classroom instruction. 

9. The laboratory and library facilities of accredited high 
schools shall be adequate to the needs of instruction in the sub- 
jects taught. 

10. No high school shall be accredited which does not have 
at least twenty students enrolled in grades nine to twelve in- 
clusive. 

11. The location and construction of the building; the light- 
ing, heating and ventilation of the rooms; the nature of labora- 
tories, desks, appanatus, maps and illustrative material; and the 
general sanitary condition of the building and grounds shall be 
taken into consideration in placing any high school on the ac- 
credited list. 

12. Every curriculum in accredited high schools shall in- 
volve the co;mpietion of at least two majors of t;hree units each 
and twO' minors of two units each. The following wil'l be deemed 
satisifajctory major groups: 

3 units of English 

3 units of foreign language 

3 units of mathematics 

3 units of social science 

3 units of natural 9g|^j^f<|^Q§ 

Two units from aiiy one of the foregoing gr|ups of studies 
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ACCREDITED HIGH SCHOOLS 



STANDARD ONE, TWO, AND THREE YEAR HIGH SCHOOLS 

Following are the standards for three, two, and one-year 
high schools. The purpose of accrediting such high schools is that 
those completing the courses may have had an opiportunity to do 
standard high school work and thus be admitted, without examina- 
tion, to standard high schools, either in the Territory or the 
States, offering more advanced work. 

Standards for these high scho^is are the same as those for 
four-year schools except as noted below: 

Three-Year High Schools 

1. Required units for coimpletion of course, twelve. 

2. Number of tecchers giving their entire time to the work 
of instruction and supervision, two. 

3. No definite requirement regarding enoniment. 

4. Every curriculum shall contain one majdr of three units 
and at least two minors of two units each. Major and minor 
groups as listed under four-year accredited high schools are ac- 
ceptable. 

Two-Year High Schools 

1. Required units for completion of course, eight. 

2. NuimJber of teachers giving their entire time to the work of 
instrnction, one. 

3. No requireiment regarding enrollment. 

4. Two minors of two units each shall be required in all 
curriculums. 

One-Year High Schools 

1. Required units for conipletion of course, four. 

2. Nuniiber of teachers in whole system, at least two, one of 
whom shall give at least one-half time to the work of instruction 
in the high school. 

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS 

1. All courses of study in high school, whether one, two, 
three or four year high schools, must be approved by the Com- 
missioner of Education. 

2. Four regular full unit subjects provide sufficient work for 
the average high sichool student. Students who are strong both 
physically and mentally, and who are well grounded in their gen- 
eral school work are sometimes able to carry a heavier course, 
altho this practice should be discouraged. Under no conditions 
should a student take more than five full unit subjects in one 
school year. 

3. It IS preferable to defer the study of early European his- 
tory until the Tenth Grade, since by so doing pupils are better 
able to grasp the subject and are yet able to complete the full 
three-year course in history. 

4. A ]iigh school should offer only such subjects as its facili- 
ties and teaching force will permit. A good elementary school 
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lile U) a imvch higiior degree than will a weak elementary school 
and a weak t'oiur year high school course. 

5. It is not well for a high school having the minimum re- 
quirement of teachers to attempt too extensive a course of situdy. 

6. High schools which are offering but one, two or three 
years of work but which have a siufficient enix)llment to warrant 
the addition of another year should plan their course accordingly 
during the year prior to such addition. 

7. Science clashes should meet for at least seven periods in 
ea-ch week, thus providing for two double period recitations in 
laboriatory work weekly. 

8. Manual training, home economics, typewriting, book- 
keeping and other classes in which no particular preparation out- 
side of the class-room is required, should meet for a double per- 
iod five times each week if one full unit is to be given for the 
work. Where manual training or home economics are offered but 
two or three days in each week, one-half unit only shall be given. 
Where such subjects as book-keeping and typewriting are offered 
for but one period each day, one-half unit only shall be given. 
All other classes meet five periods per week. 

9. No more than two units sball be allowed for work in each 
of the following subjects: Manual training", domestic science, 
typewriting, bookkeeping. Not more than one unit shall be al- 
lowed for work, in each of the following subjects: Music, physical 
education. 

10. Credit shall not be allowed for physics or chemistry if 
given before the third year of the course nor shall credit be al- 
lowed for United States history and civics if given before the 
third year of the course, excapt where the student may have taken 
the subject while in a two-year high school. 

11. No credit shall be given for a semester of work in a one 
year subject. 

12. No course of study offering a foreign language will be 
approved unless at least two units of that language are provided 
for. If, however, a student has completed satisfactorily one unit 
of a foreign language and in the judgment of the superintendent 
or principal he would not profit by further study of the sub- 
ject, the unit completed may be credited toward the units re- 
quired for graduation. In no> case can this be permitted to occur 
with more than one language. 

13. Accurate and complete records of attendance together 
with the class standing of ail students should be kept, and in such 
form as to be conveniently referred to and safely preserved. Loose 
leaf record books such as those prepared by the S. Y. Gillan Co. 
are recomimendeid. 

14. No student having a grade of less than "B" in the 
majority of subjects, according to the marking system recommended 
below, should be certified to a university or college as capable of 
doing standard work. 



